Abdizhamil Karimuly Nurpeisov

Abdizhamil Karimuly Nurpeisov (Әбдіжәміл Кәрімұлы Нұрпейісов, Äbdıjämıl Kärımūly Nūrpeiısov; 22 October 1924 – 5 February 2022) was a Soviet and Kazakh writer and translator.

His ancestors anciently lived in the area of the Aral Sea.

His grandfather in the seventh generation Taykozha Batyr had a son Kaldan; in his turn he had a son Arghynbay Bi, who had a son Sylanbay famous in his time for untold wealth.

Nurpeis born after him was a district hakim.

Nurpeis had three sons Karim, Nazhim and Kali.

All the three and Abdizhamil born of Karim participated in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945).

Among them all Abdizhamil was the only one returned alive from the front.

His father Karim was engaged in hunting and worked in the village Soviet.

Just before the war he worked at a fishery collective farm.

In 1942, after leaving a secondary school, he joined the Army and participated in the Great Patriotic War.

After graduating from the preliminary courses he became a political worker at the South and the Baltic fronts, in an artillery mortar company thereabouts Luhansk, later he was a staff officer and saw action in the Baltic at the Kurland bridgehead.

In 1944, on April 21 he died in the war thereabouts Ternopol.

In December 1946, demobilized from the army Abdizhamil entered upon writing the novel "Kurland", which he started being in the army.

After completion and publishing the novel, he had been studying for a year in the Kazakh State University.

In 1954 he entered Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow and graduated from it in 1956.

For his first book he was given the Zhambyl Republican Award.

Along with the fact that he worked continuously in the field of prose, he stood out with his keen criticism, and journalistic articles.

In 1962–1964 he worked as a head editor of the magazine Zhuldyz, which was the body of the Writers' Union of Kazakhstan, besides that he was a delegate of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR.

Since 1964, for many years he had been engaged in creative activities only, during the market time he organized an international Kazakh PEN Club and was appointed to its presidency.

In 1985 he was given the honorary title "People's Writer of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic".

USSR State Prize

In 2000, he started publishing the magazine "Tan Sholpan" under the auspices of the PEN club.

For many years he had been a chairman of the board of editors of one and the same literary and social magazine.

The trilogy The Blood and Sweat and the other writings of Abdizhamil Nurpeisov one of the word-painters made great contributions to the Kazakh literature of the past twentieth century, were translated into about thirty foreign languages, due to this the world has learned about the national Kazakh literature and they were prized by the world's outstanding writers.

A Frenchman Louis Aragon, Russians Yury Kazakov, Sergei Baruzdin, Anatoli Kim, Nikolay Afanasiev, Lev Anninsky, Leonid Terakopyan, Valentin Oskotsky, a Spaniard August Vidal, a Kyrgyz Chingiz Aitmatov, a Bashkir Mustai Karim, Germans Leo Kossuth, Ralph Schroeder, Kazakhstanis Mukhtar Auezov, Sabit Mukanov, Gabit Musirepov, Mukhamedzhan Karataev, Takhauy Ahtanov, Serik Kirabaev, Zeynolla Kabdolov, Gerold Belger, Akseleu Seydimbek, and the others wrote about him with excitement.

"... Everything written by Abdizhamil can be called as an entire epic. The epic could be also called "The twentieth century and the Kazakh world". Ordeals in the beginning of the century (The Blood and Sweat), inhumanity in its middle ("Kurland"), and persecution at the end of the century ("The last duty") constitute a single artistic canvas."

Memories written by a talented artist in words brought new ideas into the artistic memoir.

The writer was so self-critical, that before each edition he criticized strictly, honed, polished and decried even his world-famous writings.

It was bowing his head to the power of the artistic expression.

Love for literature, devotion to the art is equating to "related business" as the great Abay said.

To resign to "humiliation", "ridicules", torments, and understand in depth the responsibility of literature is a great work.

The trilogy The Blood and Sweat, the dilogy "The last duty" is not only Nurpeisov's success, but also a success of all Kazakh literature.

The outstanding writer was praised for his extraordinary work by the people and by the State.

A. Nurpeisov was the laureate of the USSR State Prize.

In Kazakhstan only three writers Mukhtar Auezov, Abdizhamil Nurpeisov, Zhuban Moldagaliev have such an award.

He died on 5 February 2022, at the age of 97.

Order of the second degree of the Second World War, "Red Star";

Order of the "Red Banner of Labor";

Order "Mark of Honor";

Kazakhstan Order "Homeland";